In real life, inner monologue is often repetitive. Having conceived the idea "She's hot", we will happily continue to embroider this theme in our minds throughout a twenty-minute conversation with a bored flight attendant. If you render these thought loops directly in your fiction, however, your character can begin to sound uncannily like a malfunctioning computer in a movie made before anyone had a computer.

Jeffrey Archer paid tribute to Lady Thatcher, saying: "She was a giant and she will remain a giant, and in history she will remain a giant." Jeffrey Archer: not just a terrible writer, but also a terrible writer.

Civilitey/ Liberby. Reason. Efidication. Civilty Rationality. Learning, Jutstice. Libersty. Hornor. Elucidution.. Civlity. Raison... This are the virshues which emboby the magnificence that is Can Town.

"Hello and greetings, Department of Redundancy Department? Aye, yes, I wish to announce, that is report, a single, yes, one, instance of unnecessary repetition, commonly referred to as redundancy. Farewell and goodbye."

"As you start playing you'll notice this horrendously horrendous music. It's driving me insane! Listen to it too much and it'll drive you to brink of insanity! This music is so bad that I'm about to go insane!"

"Sonic is trapped in there. And the rest of Mobius is out here! Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha! And it's mine! IT'S MINE! All mine! ALL MINE!!!"[Commercial break] "With Sonic trapped in the force field, Mobius is mine! MINE! ...Did I say that already?"

"Putting clients first by putting employees firs, immediately after prioritizing fiscal responsibility and leveraging profitability toward exceeding by empowering our employees to put clients (and themselves) first, in a diverse and respectful environment of only those that come first, first."

"I am not Bubbles! 'Bubbles' is not my name, for the name 'Bubbles' is not the correct name to address me by, for it is not my name! If you were to address me by the name 'Mojo Jojo', that would be correct, for my name is 'Mojo Jojo'! And I will only be addressed by that name, which is 'Mojo Jojo'! And furthermore, it is not 'we' who will rule the world, it is 'I'! 'I' being Mojo Jojo, who is not Bubbles, shall rule the world alone, which is to say without anybody else, and without anybody else shall I rule this world! And when this world is ruled by only one person, not the collective group, but the one person who shall be ruling the world will be none other than me: MOJO JOJO!"

Set in the quasi-futuristic metropolis of Brüteville City...okay, let's stop right there. "Brüteville City." It combines two of my favorite comedy tropes: the extraneous umlaut, and mixing "ville" with "city." Those things always make me happy - the gold standard of the latter being "The City of Townsville" from The Powerpuff Girls, of course...

David: “A riddle! In the FORM of a JOKE!!” Chris: Of everything we’ve seen and will see in this movie, that was the one line that bugged me when I was a kid. I mean, really, when do these guys ever get a riddle that’s not in that form? Sure, the nobility of the almost-human porpoise makes sense, but this is stretching credibility, guys.

Secretary: Hello? This is the Department of Redundancy Department. Hello? Can I help you? Do you need help? Writer: Yes. Serious professional help. But not from you. [hangs up phone]

— I Hate Myself and Want to Die

"To you and the other countless authors who refer to your books as 'fictional novels', will you please, for the love of all that’s holy and good in this world, stop it. Besides, I don’t represent fictional novels. I represent only poetic poetry, nonfictional true stories, how-to-cook-stuff cookbooks, and children’s books for children."

"... this made their respective children double first cousins. In addition, because Chang and Eng were identical twins, their children were genetically equivalent to half-siblings, thus making them genetically related in the same manner as half-siblings who are also first cousins."

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